BOYNTON, SEARLES R.

The Painter Lady Grace Carpenter Hudson

Ukiah, CA: Sun House Guild, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine, spine joints and corners. There are a couple of small nicks / edge tears and wrinkling to the top rear spine joint and top rear panel. "With John's encouragement she began painting the local Pomo Indian peoples whom she had known since a child. Her 1891 portrait of a sleeping Pomo baby, entitled "National Thorn," was the first in her series of numbered oil paintings, that grew to over 680 works by the time of her death in 1937. Hudson's reputation as an Indian painter was national during her lifetime. While nearly all her portraits were of Pomo peoples, she is also known for the 26 canvases of Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian natives she painted during a year's sojourn in the Hawaiian Islands in 1901, as well as sketches she produced of Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma Territory, circa 1903-04. Though she worked primarily in oils, she also produced lovely watercolors, pen and ink illustrations, and charcoal, pencil, and crayon drawings. Today her work enjoys renewed interest and recognition for its fine and sympathetic portrayals of native peoples. " (From the Grace C. Hudson museum). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 42546

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Searles R. Boynton Grace Carpenter Hudson Californiana California Artists California Painters California Native Americans Pomo Indians

BRIDGES, ANN (EDITED BY) (FOREWARD BY JIRI MUCHA)

Alphonse Mucha the Complete Graphic Works

New York, NY: Harmony Books, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0517541890. Illustrated by Alphonse Mucha. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech: ['alfons 'muxa] (listen) ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) , known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46115

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0517541890 Art Ann Bridges Jiri Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha Art Deco Art Nouveau Illustration

BUFFET, GUY

Guy Buffet's Hawaii Twenty Four Original Watercolors Reproduced for Framing

San Francisco, CA: Cameron and Company, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0918684110. Illustrated by Guy Buffet. Color Illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and wear. The Text pages are clean and bright. "Guy Buffet was born in Paris in 1943. His father took young Guy for walks in Montparnasse to show him famous landmarks such as "La Coupole”, (one of the artist's favorite eateries even today) , where famous artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, George Braque and Tsuguhara Foujita would spend most of their days and evenings. Those artists became heroes and models for Guy Buffet's future life. One summer, he was invited to spend some time in the country with an artist friend of the family, and he fell in love with the smells and the feelings of an artist's studio. By the end of the visit, he had completed a large 2’ x 3’ painting, which surprised everyone for it's composition and wonderful colors and brush strokes. In fact, it was so well-received that the artist friend wouldn't let Guy Buffet use his studio ever again! Guy decided at that moment to become an artist." (from Lahaina Galleries). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 48458

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0918684110 Art Guy Buffet Hawaii History Artists Hawaiiana

BATES AND GUILD COMPANY

Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs : Millais November 1908 Part 107 Vol. 9

Boston, MA: Bates & Guild Company, Publishers, 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cardstock covers have edge wear, nicks, tears and several large chips missing. The spine of the magazine has tearing and chipping to the bottom end. The text pages are clean and bright. This issue gives an overview of the artist John Everett Millais. "A child prodigy, at the age of eleven Millais became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy. By the mid-1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style and developing a new and powerful form of realism in his art.". Good .

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Book number: 34687

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Bates And Guild Company Magazines Artists John Everett Millais Illustrated Monographs Art

DOVER PUBLICATIONS / ERTE

Erte Postcards in Full Color 24 Ready-to-Mail Postcards

New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1984. Trade Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0486247309. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. All postcards are included and fully intact. "Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. One of his earliest successes was designing apparel for the French dancer Gaby Deslys who died in 1920. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognisable, and his ideas and art still influence fashion into the 21st century. His costumes, programme designs, and sets were featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923, many productions of the Folies Bergère, and George White's Scandals. On Broadway, the celebrated French chanteuse Irène Bordoni wore Erté's designs." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 45285

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0486247309 Art Dover Publications Postcards Erte Fashion And Dress

FERNANDEZ, JUSTINO (WITH A PROLOGUE BY MANUEL TOUSSAINT)

El Arte Moderno En Mexico Breve Historia - Siglos XIX Y XX

Mexico: Antigua Libreria Robredo, 1937. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; Limited to 2000 copies, this is number 705. This is an oversized paperback book. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge tears. The tan covers have some fading, spotting and rubbing. There is some light rubbing to the spine joints as well. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front endpapers of the dust jacket are laid-in. "Justino Fernández García (September 28, 1904 – December 12, 1972) was a researcher, historian and art critic who is particularly known for his work documenting and critiquing Mexican art of the 20th century. Fernandez studied and developed his career with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as a protégé of Manuel Toussaint. Then the latter died in 1955, Fernandez took over as head of the Aesthetic Research Institute at UNAM, where he would develop the most of his writing and research until his death. Fernandez’s work was recognized by the Mexican government with the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1969. ". Very Good- .

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Book number: 41927

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Justino Fernandez Manuel Toussaint Modern Art Mexican Artisans Mexican Artists Mexican Art

MACBETH GALLERY

Second Exhibition of "Intimate Paintings"

New York: MacBeth Gallery, 1918. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning toning to the spine joints and edges of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Macbeth Gallery was the first New York gallery to specialize in American art and is historically important for exhibiting work by many American artists well-known to us today, including Winslow Homer, Charles H. Davis, and Andrew Wyeth. In addition to solo exhibitions, many group shows were held at the Macbeth Gallery in the early 20th century– several would have a profound impact on the development and appreciation of American art.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 35379

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Macbeth Gallery Exhibition Catalogues American Art Art

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART & GAIL LEVIN & EDWARD HOPPER

Edward Hopper the Art and the Artist

New York, NY: WW Norton & Co. in Assoc. With the Whitney Museum, 1981. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 039301374X. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects layered with a poetic meaning, inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed. His career benefited significantly from his marriage to fellow artist Josephine Nivison, who contributed much to his work, both as a life-model and as a creative partner. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 47749

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 039301374X Art Gail Levin Edward Hopper Artists American Artists

HOVING, THOMAS

Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth a Conversation with Andrew Wyeth

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0395270804. Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. B&W and Color Illustrations; First edition thus, following an Exhibition Catalogue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is also the first paperback edition thus. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. "Andrew Newell Wyeth (/July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U. S. Artists of the middle 20th century. In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth often noted: "I paint my life." One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This tempera was painted in 1948, when Wyeth was 31 years old." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 40259

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0395270804 Art Thomas Hoving Andrew Wyeth Hudson Valley Artists American Artists Art

HUNDERTPFUND, LIBERTAT (TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF)

The Art of Painting Restored to Its Simplest and Surest Principles

London, England: David Bogue, 1849. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear. The covers have noticeable fading and spotting and has been well handled. The inner hinges are loose, as is the sewing. The text pages are generally clean. Both inner hinges are cracked and the front endpaper has been torn away. This copy includes a color frontispiece, a folded analytical chart of color, and 19 of 20 illustrated plates (one of which is various paintbrushes, the others are different color variations of a fold of cloth). One plate (featuring an artist's palate) is missing. "M. Libertat Hundertpfund, the historical painter at Augsberg, has published a work, entitled The art of Painting brought back to it's simplest and surest principles, in which a very valuable discovery has been applied to the practice of oil-painting, so as to render it comparatively easy, and to ground it on an intelligble theory. While he was busied with experiments to find out a better mode of imitating the transparency of the natural shadow, a glass prism fell into his hands. This was a source of great delight to him. The colours produced by it, and their operation on each other, became an engrossing subject of his thoughts; and on one occasion his fancy led him to imagine the three primitive colours, - red, blue, and yellow - springing like rays from the centre of a circle to three equidistant points in its circumference, and affecting the intermediate spaces there by producing their three derivative colours - purple, orange, and green. This was a mere play of imagination; for at the moment of its occurance, he had not any idea of the discovery up to which he was subsequently led." (the Year Book of Facts in Science and Art (1848) ). Good .

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Book number: 45249

Catalogue: Art Techniques

Keywords: Art Techniques Libertat Hundertpfund Painting Painting Techniques Illustration Color Using Color

HURST, ALEX A.

Arthur Briscoe- Marine Artist His Life and Work

Brighton, England: Teredo Books Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0903662019. Illustrated by Arthur Briscoe. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket, but with a Very Good+ slipcase. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author the reverse of the half title page. "No other British etcher has celebrated the world of the sailing ship with more understanding than Arthur Briscoe. Briscoe portrayed not just sailing vessels and the sea itself but, in particular, he delighted in portraying seafaring men whilst at work. Briscoe's original prints are now generally acknowledged as the finest marine etchings of the 20th century, for Arthur Briscoe’s bold etched works display both the artist’s intimate knowledge of the sea and his innate mastery of the etching needle. In particular, Briscoe had the ability to convey the motion of the sea itself and the varied effects of light and shade with extraordinary economy of line - a feat which has been the ultimate goal of the etching purist since the time of Whistler and the beginning of the British Etching Revival." (Campbell Fine Arts) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine .

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Book number: 40579

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0903662019 Art Alex A. Hurst Signed Edition Arthur Briscoe Marine Painting Marine Artists Etchings Art

JENKINS, JIM & DAVE QUICK

Motion Motion Kinetic Art

Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books / Gibbs-Smith Publishers, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 087905185X. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with heavy illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the top spine end and top edge of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect. Canvas paintings that extend the viewer's perspective of the artwork and incorporate multidimensional movement are the earliest examples of kinetic art. More pertinently speaking, kinetic art is a term that today most often refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or are machine operated. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 35372

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 087905185X Art Jim Jenkins Dave Quick Kinetic Art Movement Art

O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA / PENGUIN BOOKS

Georgia O'keeffe

New York: Penguin Books, 1977. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Illustrated by Georgia O'Keeffe. Color Illustrations; This is a folio sized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is the first paperback edition. The book is mostly clean and bright. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1905, O'Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York, but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature. In 1908, unable to fund further education, she worked for two years as a commercial illustrator, and then taught in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina between 1911 and 1918. During that time, she studied art during the summers between 1912 and 1914 and was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art, as seen in the beginning stages of her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 38521

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Georgia O'keefe Painters Artists Art

KELTON, ELMER

The Art of James Bama

New York: Bantam Books, 1993. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0553093053. Illustrated by James Bama. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small nicks and edge tears. The text on this tribute to the Western / Native American art of James Bama is by Elmer Kelton. This copy includes a laid in print in a folder embossed with an owl from the Greenwich Workshop which contains the color print Sepia Study - Pawnee Indian. Unfortunately, the previous owner, a Saddlery from Boulder Creek, CA, added an inked store emblem / address to both the front and back covers of the folder (NOT to the print, thank heavens!). "James Bama is one of the best contemporary artists working today. His portraits - of people from the smallest child to the greatest hero - have garnered the respect and captured the imagination of art collectors and critics around the world." Due to the extreme weight of this book, postage will have to be determined at time of ordering.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 36349

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0553093053 Art Elmer Kelton Artists James Bama Artists biography The West Western Americana Western Art

KUNZ, MARTIN (EDITED BY)

William Wegman Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "His work, which includes photography, video, painting and drawing, is held in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work has also been a popular success, and have appeared in books, advertisements, films, as well as on television programs like Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live. In 2006, Wegman's work was featured in a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts and the Addison Gallery of American Art. The show, entitled William Wegman: Funney/Strange, explored 40 years of his work in all mediums." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 40084

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art William Wegman Martin Kunz Photography Dogs Art